Operators of power plants today face increasing technical and commercial risks. POWER Engineers has extensive experience in power facilities operations and maintenance. We understand the full range of issues and can help you optimize your plant’s performance and investment value, and mitigate risks.

From assessing your operations and maintenance to providing balance-of-plant, boiler and engineering solutions, POWER can support your coal, oil and natural gas facilities needs during commercial operations.

Operations Assessments

POWER combines technical expertise with financial insight to review and assess your power plant operations and provide support where you need it.

Key Services

Process performance

Energy efficiency

Training

Staffing effectiveness

Life-cycle costs

Cyber security

SOP review and development

Safety plans and procedures

Operability and maintainability reviews

Equipment Analysis and Review

We review your technical and operational data and provide/verify appropriate equipment sizing for optimal operation and efficiency of your generation and balance-of-plant assets.

Startup QA and QC

We provide technical oversight during outages to ensure your milestones and critical-to-quality parameters are met.

Plant Performance Software Modeling

Using advanced modeling software, we develop process models based on plant-specific historical data to improve the design, analysis and optimization of your thermal power plants.

Component-Based Performance Analysis

We generate custom spreadsheet tools that help your staff track overall plant and component performance trends. Or we can retain the spreadsheet tools and provide periodic reports as part of a remote monitoring service.

Performance Training

Decommissioning

With the increase of environmental regulatory challenges and advancements in fuel burning options, many coal-fired power plants are facing retirement. It may no longer be feasible to operate and renovate many power plants. Therefore, decommissioning and dismantling becomes part of these facilities’ lifecycles.

Building on our extensive power generation experience, POWER provides solutions to those who have made the decision to retire a plant and now face a series of complex choices. Decommissioning often presents clients with many new challenges, so it is extremely important that someone with expertise and experience is involved during the dismantle process.

Engineering Services

Plant decommissioning

Engineers probable cost estimates

Life cycle cost estimates

Feasibility studies

Feasibility consultation and alternative technology review

Project feasibility and sizing studies and estimating

Detailed design

Construction services

Due diligence

Environmental permitting

Permitting definition and support

On-site retirement support

Critical Piping Assessment

With a dedicated team, we can manage the overall critical piping assessment program for you including the scheduling/planning of future inspections and monitoring activities at your plants.

Multi-Phased Approach

We employ a multi-phased approach that can be tailored specifically to you and the needs of your plant(s). This approach results in cost-effective, high-value solutions for your plant. And all engineering services are provided under the direct supervision of licensed professional engineers who maintain responsible charge of the work.

Phase I: Perform Validation Walkdown

Phase 2: Confirm the Position of the As-Found High Energy piping

Phase 3: Create Piping Stress Analysis Computer Models

Phase 4: Manage Non-destructive Examinations

Phase 5: Perform Walkdown/Assessment of High Energy Piping

Phase 6: Perform As-Found Piping Stress Analysis

Phase 7: Perform Updated Piping Stress Analysis

Phase 8: Prepare Engineering Report

3-D/LIDAR Scanning

LIDAR Scanning

POWER incorporates the latest 3-D or Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) scanning into our engineering and design. LIDAR produces an accurate geometric model, in the form of a point cloud, from an existing site or plant.

This powerful model can be used in multiple design situations before, during and after engineering activities. The point cloud saves clients time and money by limiting manual measurements and costly repeat site visits.

Typical Uses

Site/Plant Verification. In the absence of, or in comparison to, existing drawings of a site or plant, the point cloud obtains or verifies dimensional information for equipment, structures, piping or field aspects.

Conditional Dimensions. Scans taken during different conditions (e.g. hot/cold, active/inactive, load/no load) are used to create an accurate side-by-side geometric comparison of pipe, ducting, structural members or equipment.

Before/After Illustrations. The point cloud can create an accurate and realistic comparison model of a project before construction and after the project is complete. It can also illustrate multiple options/iterations.

As-built/As-constructed Documentation. The point cloud of a completed can assist with the creation or modification of as-built documentation.

Safety. Objects and features at dangerous heights or difficult-to-reach locations can often be measured in a point cloud without endangering field personnel.

Engineering Services

POWER provides a full complement of engineering services for your power plant projects—big and small. From new power plants to renovating existing facilities, we offer complete life-cycle solutions from conceptual engineering through operations support.

We also understand our clients have smaller needs as well. Whether it’s solving an existing problem or supplementing owner’s engineering staff, we’re organized to deliver single and multidiscipline services without the resources typically required by larger, full-service projects.

The result: cost-effective, high value solutions for your plant. And all engineering services are provided under the direct supervision of licensed professional engineers who maintain responsible charge of the work.

Typical Work Products:

Specifications for geotechnical investigation work

Analysis of geotechnical data and topography to establish design parameters for the foundations work

Design criteria (or Basis) document

Bill of quantities for structural materialsStructural engineering and design of the foundations for equipment and structures including turbine generator foundations, building foundations, cooling tower and tank foundations, electrical equipment foundations

Dynamic analysis of equipment foundations

Structural engineering and design of the power plant buildings including the structural steel roof and floor systems

Engineering and design of steel structures including pipe racks, platforms, stairways, and handrails, including conventional and modular design.

Finite Element Analysis of foundations and structural systems

Seismic analysis and design of buildings and structures, including soil-structure interaction

Feasibility studies and analyses in support of overall plant design

Specifications for civil, structural, and architectural materials

Peer reviews and Owner’s Engineer technical reviews

Analysis and design of existing buildings and structures for renovation and rehabilitation projects

Mechanical Engineering

POWER’s seasoned mechanical engineers and designers have 30 years of experience designing new plants and working in existing facilities.

We can help you review available options and match vendor requirements, project budget and lifecycle costs to a specific technology and design. Then we deliver the complete work package to facilitate successful execution of each project, big or small.

Typical Services:

Plant (Process) systems design

Equipment sizing, specification and selection

Piping engineering including:

Pipe specifications

Pipe routing

Pipe stress analysis

Pipe support design

Water/Wastewater supply and treatment

Building services including:

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC)

Fire protection

Plumbing

Corrosion analysis

Plant operating problem analysis and solutions

Equipment inspection at shop or at site

High energy piping walkdowns and inspections

Piping replacement and upgrades

Energy efficiency upgrades

Typical Work Products:

Design criteria and system descriptions

Equipment & construction specification

Process flow diagrams

Heat balance diagrams

Water balance diagrams

Piping and instrument diagrams

3D design model

Plot plan

Equipment arrangement drawings

Equipment, pipeline, valve and specialty lists

Piping plans and isometrics

Stress analysis (calculations)

Pipe support design

Welded pipe attachment analysis

ASME pressure vessel analysis

High energy piping and pipe support assessments

Evaluation of P91 alloy piping fabrication and installation issues

Vendor selection and submittal reviews

Demolition and tie-in plans

Bill of material

Building HVAC engineering

Studies and reports

Process hazard and safety review reports

Record drawings

Key Software and Tools:

Thermoflow – Cycle analysis

Hysys – Process modeling

Pipe-Flo – System analysis

Caesar II – Stress analysis

AutoPipe – Stress analysis

FEpipe – Finite element

Risa 3D – Frame analysis

GT Pro/GT Master – Plant performance analysis

Steam Pro/Steam Master – Plant performance analysis

SmartPlant – P&ID and 3D design

Plant 3D – P&ID and 3D design

PDS – Plant design system

PDMS – 3D design

CADWorx – P&ID and 3D design

MicroStation and AutoCAD

LIDAR 3D – Laser scanning

Civil Engineering

POWER Engineers performs civil engineering functions as part of a larger design project as well as stand-alone engineering activity. Our staff of civil engineers and designers provides the complete civil work package from conception to completion.

Typical Services:

Feasibility studies and site selection

Land use planning and permitting

Interface and coordination with federal, state, county or local permitting agencies

We have secured controls labs in our offices to use for system logic and graphic configuration and testing. POWER also performs field upgrades and integration of control systems, start-up and commissioning, control loop tuning as well as panel testing and checkout.

Typical Services:

Control system design, assembly and testing

Control system upgrade studies, justification and implementation

Instrumentation and control valve selection and specification

Plant interlock and process control design

Control panel design

Logic and HMI design and configuration

Foreign device interface (Datalink) design

Network and wiring design

Instrumentation installation design

Vendor evaluation, interface and document review

Burner Management System NFPA compliance review

Typical Work Products:

Control system design criteria

Control system architecture drawing

Control room layout drawing

Control panel layout drawing

Control analog and digital logic diagrams

Control logic narratives

Graphic display sketches

Piping and instrumentation diagrams

Instrument and control valve specifications and datasheets

Instrument installation details

Instrument location plans

Instrument index

Control system IO list

Datalink points lists (for foreign device interfaces)

Control philosophy documents

Key Software and Tools:

SmartPlant P&ID and SmartPlant Instrumentation

SmartPlant Review (Model Review)

Rockwell Logix and FactoryTalk Platforms

Siemens PCS 7 Control System Platform

Siemens T3000 DCS

Emerson Ovation DCS Platform

GE Cimplicity HMI

ABB SymphonyPlus and Harmony DCS Platforms

Extensive experience with legacy systems

Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)

POWER maintains a CAE group charged with supporting our CAE systems. Our plant design software tool is the SmartPlant suite of products by Intergraph, which includes:

SmartPlant Instrumentation (SPI) for all aspects of instrumentation engineering and design

Smart 3D for plant 3D modeling including Work Share.

We also understand that many clients prefer to use other 3D modeling applications. For these clients, we have successfully used the following, either in stand-alone fashion or in conjunction with the above SmartPlant tools:

PDMS (Aveva)

PDS (Intergraph)

3D Microstation (Bentley)

AutoDesk AutoCAD

AutoDesk Plant3D

Autodesk Inventor

AutoDesk Revit Structural

CADWORX (Intergraph)

POWER can also translate documents from one application to another, and can produce final deliverables in several formats to suit client standards.

POWER has experience with and is capable of performing on-site 3d scans and generating accurate point clouds for design purposes and as-built documentation. FARO scanning technology is utilized for the 3d scanning process and the resulting point clouds can be utilized in the software packages listed above. Point clouds are created using: